SMIDSY time.. Lucky to live.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[MCN]

I hope it all gets sorted out.

Never assume the bastirts have seen you or will wait.
Plan ahead and slowthefuckdown for it.

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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[MCN]

[TheRealSmiler]

[Ayrton]

Glad you got out ok. I had a very similar accident in my car 5 years ago going 60mph and t-boned someone and it's quite scary to think how badly that would have been if I were on a bike. In my case it was a girl that just passed her test so the police let her off, but someone admitting to not looking for bikes should be prosecuted in my opinion.
It's changed how I drive though and I always back off the throttle if I see someone waiting at a junction like that now.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Freddyfruitba...]

I'm gonna make a controversial comment here about SMIDSYs in general...

Hi-viz gear? Auxillary riding lights?

Just at a wild guess, the OP wasn't using either. And of course why should he have to do so and look like a prat? It's up to drivers to look where they're going, isn't it? And yet, as usual it's the biker who's the one with a written-off machine and who's lucky to be still alive.

Discuss.
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[UncleFester]

Riding lights that aren't too bright. Also not equally spaced. Or just one aux light that's away from the main light and not level with it.

Allegedly makes it easier to judge oncoming speed

Allegedly and presuming the driver actually looks.
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[yen_powell]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[TheRealSmiler]

[P.]

[blurredman]

Part of the High visibility stuff is that they are so common these days I think that they have moved to the back of the mind and become just as much a part of scenery as anything else in the world. You see them everywhere- therefore they are not an oddity anymore that your mind points out to you unconciously.

The same with DRL's on cars being so common it's now more likely you are seen if you don't have your lights on, because you're the minority.

I disagree with DRL's and that includes using headlamps on the motorcycles (from my experience, I get ulled out on LESS with them off)... It was still light whilst I was riding home today and I had received a flash from someone as if to tell me to get my lights on.. It's the bloody day time!
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[CaNsA]

I've not posted in a while, and I doubt I'll post again anytime soon.

[UncleFester]

Holy ghost revival!
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[Hong Kong Phooey]

[MarJay]

I have to concur to some extent. I've been riding for 24 years and I could count on the fingers of one hand the times I've had someone pull out on me and actually thought I was at serious risk. It's observation, road positioning, use of speed, where your eyes go to, observing junctions etc. The SMIDSY maneuvre was recently proven by a scientific study which showed us something most of us already know, that being if you move across your lane at the point at which a driver would be looking to see if there is something there, they are more likely to see you.

I'm not saying that unforeseen 'pull out' events don't ever happen. I'm sure some are absolutely unavoidable, but you can't just go around blaming other people just because they are wrong in the eyes of the law or the highway code. With bikes your life is more important than who is right or who is wrong. The right and wrong of it all is irrelevant when you're in hospital. You have to self reflect and ask "Is there anything *I* could have done to avoid the accident". I wasn't there... but from the description it seems a lot like there were other escape routes than riding into the back of a car. If the car pulled all the way across into the right lane and you were in the right lane, that must mean the left lane was a clear escape route.

I am not bemoaning the accidents, not at all. I'm bemoaning the lack of self reflection that comes after accidents and near misses.
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[MarJay]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Slightly off-topic but not worth a new thread so I’ll just leave this here.
They’re out there!

https://news.sky.com/story/nottinghamshire-man-drove-without-insurance-or-a-licence-for-more-than-70-years-police-say-12526845

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Polarbear]